Determinants of Integration and Its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

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Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany

“…Moreover, those who were educated abroad are more likely to be socially integrated. These findings are in line with many studies that show the positive impact of education on social integration (Dustmann 1996;Danzer and Ulku 2011;De Vroome and Van Tubergen 2010). Furthermore, having a child in Germany increases the social integration of refugees.…”

“…Exploiting the quasi-random assignment of citizenship in Swiss municipalities, they study the effects of naturalization and find that it plays a highly significant role in social integration of immigrants, particularly for marginalized groups, and when it happens early. Danzer and Ulku (2011) studied the impact of integration on income and the determinants of each integration component (political, social, and economic integration) for a sample of the Turkish community in Berlin. The authors use close German friends as a proxy for social integration and rely on Seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) and Full information maximum likelihood regressions (FIML) and show that education is the common determinant of all forms of integration while local ethnic networks have a positive impact on social integration only.…”

“…Second, we investigate the determinants of economic integration to compare our results to previous work. However, we do not deal with the impact of social integration on economic integration (Cheung and Phillimore 2014;Danzer and Ulku 2011). This is because it does not seem possible to find an instrumental variable for social integration that does not impact employment directly.…”

Turkish Migrants’ Organizations in Germany and Their Role in the Flow of Remittances to Turkey

“…2. The determinants of the flow of remittances (Akkoyunlu and Kholodilin 2006;Alper and Neyapti 2006;Aydas et al 2005;Danzer and Utku 2008;Köksal 2006;Sayan 2004). It is argued that there are three main determinants of the 4 An organization is defined as a migrant organization if: (a) at least half of its members are migrants, (b) it has an enduring, stable, and visible vertical and horizontal structure, and (c) issues regarding migrants are a part of its activities and claims.…”

Impact of the EU Blue Card programme on cultural participation and subjective well-being of migrants in Germany

“…It is important to explore the influence of migration policies on cultural participation and analyse the relationship between cultural activities and SWB, as the latter may act as a key driver of human capital to increase productivity and social inclusion, and boost overall development. The majority of the earlier studies have explored economic, demographic, political and institutional outcomes as measures of integration, including wages, employment, language, citizenship rights, religion, fertility choices and language [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. While few studies have explored the role of different types of cultural and leisure activities as part of the integration process [13,14], our study contributes to the earlier literature by exploring the impact of the migration policy of the EU Blue Card programme in 2012 on cultural participation using a sharp regression discontinuity design (RDD) and as a robustness check, we apply a fuzzy RDD.…”